Urville
Jun 20, 2010 Comedy, Documentary
Urville
Genre: Documentary
City, Utopia, living together
Is it the ideal city? Who knows? Director Angela Christlieb has certainly been looking after her. And cast a refreshing light-docu-fiction to the screen, which impresses by her loving humor. Urville is many things in one: documentation, because the people who are in it, very real. Fiction, because play fantasies, desires and utopias a central role. Comedy, because the interviewed people are funny guys. And experimental film, because everything is very playful and tells in part with funds alienating. The director goes into its second full-length film on a trip to three French villages, all the hot “Urville”. These small communities are part of only 60 or 150 people still very real, but at the same time mythically inflated. But with swings in the name of “Urville” something like the “Ur-city” or the “Ur-village”, so the thought of a nucleus of all human society. And that is also something of a model or a model or ideal. “Urville” in the Vosges level is the first stop. The place is so small that the mayor first time bring the orphaned sign out of the barn in order to prove to the film crew that it is the right place. In his village would be very harmoniously together, says the cheerful mayor – and adds in the next breath that the world is four kilometers again completely different look. Since we have, therefore, our desire for the peaceful, ideal world, after the idyllic small manageable amid a hostile environment in which everyone can be happy in his own way. Would not that wonderful? Everyone would be free, all have the same rights, no longer would have to be poor and the champagne came from the tap. In our second “Urville” – that is in the Champagne – at least the matter seems to be solved before in the champagne for all. The winery is located there seems to be so good that the villagers the noble brew supposedly get free champagne per line home delivered. This, they say it with incalculable wink, health care will be raised to an unexpected level. Because the help of champagne against both diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. , But also in the third “Urville” must not starve the lucky residents. This is in the Calvados and is, according to the Mayor, the most beautiful village in the world. Here among other things, the world champion of tripe has his business. And who’s culinary specialty is too heavy in the stomach, which can carry at any time with the famous apple brandy from the region of his digestion. Between their village visits – beautifully staged by a loss of control device cuts – the director recordings from another “Urville”. This is a recognizable fictional city, much larger and more colorful than the French province. Here there are, as we are assured that this voice, a life that would make even the proud mayor (s) fade from the real villages with envy. The divorce rate is at 0.7 percent, the prisons were abolished and everyone has a fundamental right to own apartment. This all sounds very funny and clever, these chains have targeted the Association assembled scattered visual joke, too. At the same time directs Angela Christlieb the view of a more universal world of fantasies, legends and stories. What would we be without these excesses, which we know also that they can not stand the test of reality. What would we be without all these strong character types with their sometimes quirky ideas that Angela Christlieb was able to get a surprising number before the camera? What would be our villages and cities without all this variegation of life plans? Perhaps well-organized and planned. But by no means ideal. (Peter Gutting)
Title: Urville Country of production: , Germany, France Year of Production: 2009 Length: 81 (Min.)
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Bödälä
Jun 17, 2010 Documentary
Bödälä – Dance the Rhythm
Genre: Documentary
Dance, dancer, Switzerland, the Munich Film Festival 2010, Tap Dance, Tap Dance, Flamenco
Who would suspect that the Swiss dances with the American Tap Dance or the wild Irish Dance, or could be placed even with the fiery Spanish flamenco related? Director Gitta Gsell has gone in search of clues and it is Swiss dancers met their passion for “ground cable”, the dancing knocking and pounding on the floor, with great joy and energy are able to convey. Title: Bödälä – Dance the Rhythm Country of production: Switzerland Year of Production: 2010 Length: 78 (Min.)
Kick in Iran
Jun 16, 2010 Documentary
Kick in Iran
Genre: Documentary
Sport, Iran, Olympics, Munich Film Festival in 2010, Taekwondo
Sara Khoshjamal is the first Iranian athlete to have ever qualified for the Olympic Games. Undeterred by religious fundamentalism and dress codes training, they grimly in their discipline, Kampfsortart Taekwondo. The documentary of Fatima Geza Abdollahyan accompanies the athlete on her rocky road to Beijing. Title: Kick in Iran Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2009 Length: 82 (Min.)
Until the Light Takes Us
Jun 14, 2010 Documentary
Until the Light Takes Us
Genre: Documentary, Music Film
Heavy Metal, Black Metal
The mid-1990s black metal made headlines worldwide. A wave of suicides, murders and arson at churches accompanied the rise of this new form of Heavy Metal. The director duo Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway, where the scene took its origin, and lived and accompanied by musicians and fans. Title: Until the Light Takes Us Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 93 (Min.) Rental: Rapid Eye Movies
Mr Children (DVD)
Jun 13, 2010 Documentary, Drama, Thriller
Mr Children (DVD)
Genre: Documentary
School, National Socialism, Education, Before the Fall
Behind the popularly called “Before the Fall” household name hides the “national-education institution” (NPEA), an elite school of the National Socialists, whose graduates often career in 1945 in Germany and Austria made. These included inter alia the literary critic Hellmuth Karasek and former editor of TIME, Theo Sommer, used in this documentary about words and leave the past to reminisce. The two documentary Eduard Erne and Christian Schneider try the phenomenon of “Before the Fall” to pursue, by not only the lasting impact on the former “Young men” light, but also the intergenerational traces left by this brown heritage. It is clear that even the grandchildren are affected by the Nazi past. Even if the grandparents have tried to hush this time, the trauma continues. One of the descendants of bringing it to the point: “There is no peace and no peace on this matter!” Something else is also still clearly in Mr children. Namely that the era of national-political education institution has had a traumatic not only to its alumni, but that they relate well with favor it. Then shine the eyes when talking about the elite thought. Proud of it is told that the then-employment test was hard, but have the same good produced in the boy, like iron will, fighting spirit and ambition. That surprised a little, especially a man like Hellmuth Karasek, the on the former site of his NPEA-school memories is that the “comrades” had at that time “Jews played heads. Two flower stalks were gegeneinandergeschlagen it until a flower head broke off. Astonished that this is Karasek memories without question the cruelty of this game. It would have not really thought at that time, but just played … Thus, the documentary covers mainly, that those who lived during the Nazi regime, are also making little reflection to work this time and exercise themselves in the collective forgetting. The later generations to make it much more thought, to try to understand their fathers, who have suffered from their often harsh and loveless upbringing her. Nothing was apparently good enough for them, not respect for the autonomy of another person present, and slogans like “Have you not so” or “more than” seem shaped the childhood of the second generation. One of the most disturbing but the CVs is committed by Marva Karrer, whose parents joint suicide in 1987. She tries to discover the secret of this suicide to come and find their answer and Others in the NPEA time of her father, but also in the Jewish ancestry of her mother. Together with their sons Jacob and Philip Krovoza Marva Karrer viewed the photos of their parents and interpret them. Thus the film succeeds in bridging the gap from the past into the present, even if it raises more questions than answers in total. Mr. Children works sometimes unconventional, by using slow camera movements and dramatic music, like a thriller, again and again fades the bungalow of Karrer. In particular, a Protruding little iron door is thereby taken as a symbol that access to the past will probably always remain an unsolved mystery. Then again, images of the past are projected in today’s rooms, making the presence of history is clear, and the cut end of the film sequences are faster and some images are only displayed for a split – just as it is often memory. Barely tangible, very shadowy and vague. It also makes this film difficult to grasp because he had many more points can go deep and must also achieve a spectator as the phenomenon of “Before the Fall” could approach. There remains only the knowledge that former students – the “docile as plasticine” – were never have handled their past, and even if they meet this time with a quasi silence, they have their descendants many of which have been on the road. (Silvy Pommerenke)
Title: Mr. Children (DVD) Country of production: Germany, Austria Year of Production: 2009 Length: 95 (Min.) (# ) Published at: Salzgeber tone / language: Dolby Digital 2.0, German EAN: 4040592003733 Extras: None
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In the shadow of Table Mountain
Jun 11, 2010 Documentary
In the shadow of Table Mountain
Genre: Documentary
Poverty, Apartheid, South Africa, Township, Cape Town
If these days and the weeks to draw the eyes of the world to South Africa, we are hopefully off to experience the green lawn, as this country closer together during the World Cup and presents itself as a true rainbow nation with a future, the burden of Past experience has shaken off. The presence at any rate is also 16 years after the end of apartheid, remains somber for most of the population, such as clothes and Alexander Daniela Michel show in her documentary In the shadow of Table Mountain – When the Mountain meets its Shadow. Their film shows the realities of the country and reveals how the historical injustice also limited by the football World Cup continues almost seamlessly – only the signs have shifted: “Before, it was only for whites’, today it is only for rich, ‘”says one of the protagonists of the film. What manifested during apartheid, the racist regime of inequality and injustice, is now done at the “blessings” of the privatization of housing and basic services. The end of segregation has not eliminated the slums – to the contrary. But who thinks that this injustice would make people despondent looks, just by the examples shown here are wrong. The filmmakers accompany including Ashraf and Mne of the Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC), the draw at night through the streets to remove the water closures in the townships and in and the other undesirable residents somewhat to allow for normal life. They are like many other poor South Africans at risk of eviction – and mainly because their houses and neighborhoods in the vicinity of the airport and on the edge of the traffic of tourists in particular are N2 Highway. So much visible poverty could be reflected on the general mood of celebration and euphoria – and that would be part of the state prevent you. The difficulties of the present are still the memories added to the events in the troubled past, from the Ashraf and Mne tell and they get rid of probably never: These are the many deaths in the riots and rebels in the seventies, where they had to witness how the police and military did not even shrink from the shootings of children. But the injustice that the two learned came not only from the state institutions, but certainly its own by the people: who was suspected for state torture by members of the ANC, an “informer” of the apartheid regime to have been alive in body burned using automobile tires – another dark chapter in the history of the country, which today is preferred over the mantle of silence covered. In addition to the two members of the grassroots movement AEC, the film also shows the struggle against the South Africans further cemented the status quo of a society collide in the extreme poverty of many and the extreme wealth less hard. How about when Zoliswa who himself lives in a shabby corrugated iron hut and in their work as a maid in a wealthy, predominantly white residential “gated community” every day at first hand experiences, as it is, if you are not in the privileged land heard. If you think all this is very far away and somehow “typical African”, it should not be too sure. Finally, here in the yawning gap between rich and poor is widening. In terms of creative resistance and courage, we can certainly learn some of the admirable people who come in the film to speak. (Joachim Kurz)
Title: In the shadow of Table Mountain Original Title: When the Mountain meets its Shadow Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2009 Length: 75 (Min.) Distribution: Dokwerk
Each child an instrument
Jun 10, 2010 Documentary
Every Child a tool – one year with four notes
Genre: Documentary
Music, Ruhrgebiet, primary instrument
Motomu from Bochum, Joana and Esragül from Herne and Kerem from Duisburg are JeKi “children. Primary school students who participate in a unique musical program that will soon reach over 200,000 children in the Ruhr. Six years ago at the Bochum School of Music, the project “Every Child an Instrument”, which allows all students in first grade a playful approach to music. In the second year of school, the children may then choose an instrument that they have entrusted for the next three years as a permanent loan – a creative space and an offer that is in its extensive and fundamental support to all children without parallel in Germany. The film portrays the ambitious project from the moment at which JEKI is extended to the whole Ruhr Area
Title: to each child an instrument – one year with four notes Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2010 Length: 90 (Min .) Distribution: Real Fiction
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The artist Gottfried Helnwein
Jun 10, 2010 Documentary
The artist Gottfried Helnwein
Genre: Documentary
Painter, artist, Gottfried Helnwein
Long his painted with irritating accuracy pictures belong to the arsenal of popular as in high culture. And yet they are still in many respects a scandal and a Aufreger and breaking a taboo: Since the early 1970s he addressed in his pictures again and again violated, abused and injured children, thus making early attention to a taboo subject that one then simply not noticed – or did not want to admit it. The response to the massively repressed were in Helnwein native Austria and elsewhere do not wait too long in coming. Already in his first exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus adorned shortly after the opening yellow sign with the inscription “Degenerate Art” on the exhibits. This violent reaction was the astonished artist a clear indication that he had put his finger on a wound. For it was in addition to the motifs obviously also about what fantasies they evoked in the viewer. It is precisely these buried associations that represent the true horror of his pictures – they make the audience involuntarily complicit, who must feel caught. In addition to this more private access to Helnwein’s work to open his paintings but also a clear social, political and historical perspective: His art is not only a memorial to the children, but for all oppressed and tortured creatures, they refer to exercise of power and oppression, violence and the immensity of suffering and take again and again to the Nazi regime as in the picture cycle The Ninth November Night. Also brought him in certain circles a reputation as a troublemaker and Nestbeschmutzer. He has never agreed, “And the day that I would be the entire bourgeois society would embrace the day when I would finish my art work. Then I knew I did something wrong.” For two years, the filmmaker Claudia Schmid artist Gottfried Helnwein has accompanied with the camera. It shows him at work in his estate in Ireland and in the U.S., so in those two places, Helnwein has now become home for many years. Again and again we see him in how he applies the finishing touches on his paintings, which seem to be ready for our eyes. And instinctively, one wonders whether the only one of dramatic trick here because an artist is shown, which is actually at work does not like to look over their shoulder. Instead, Helnwein talks rather about his art, provides insights into his thinking and what has influenced him. Confidants, friends and experts come in the film, however not in words – with one exception: California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, Helnwein’s longtime friend and one of the most ardent collectors of his art. Claudia Schmid has been working many years as a freelance director and film writer for broadcasters such as the WDR, 3sat and ARTE. Over time, she has realized numerous portraits of artists and contributions to the visual arts. This knowledge of the matter, you realize this film – it is her first feature-length documentary – also. Your introduction to the work and life Gottfried Helnwein, which is mainly the artists speak for themselves, turns rather to all those who are already familiar with the images of the Austrian. Nevertheless, the film also pays for all those who have become neugerig through the images on the people behind these dark and spooky at the same time very poetic imagery. For so many interesting facts from the horse mouth artist otherwise you get yourself in other portraits of artists rarely heard and see. (Joachim Kurz)
Title: The artist Gottfried Helnwein Original Title: The silence of innocence Country of production: , Germany Production year: 2009 Length: 116 (Min.) Distribution: MFA + Film Distribution
The eye 3D
Jun 10, 2010 Documentary
The eye 3D
Genre: Documentary
Desert, Chile, Atacama Telescope
The first produced in Germany in 3D documentary tells of the most powerful optical telescope in the world and the people who work with it. The “Very Large Telescope, European Southern Observatory ESO is one of the most fascinating scientific equipment ever built, and it has its place in one of the most exciting places found on our planet: in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Title: The eye 3D Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2009 Length: 45 (Min.) Distribution: Moving Pictures
The artist Gottfried Helnwein
Jun 10, 2010 Documentary
The artist Gottfried Helnwein
Genre: Documentary
Painter, artist, Gottfried Helnwein
For over 30 years, Gottfried Helnwein one known and one of the most controversial German artist of the postwar period. His works are sought after by the most prestigious museums in the world and its exhibitions have the highest number of visitors. With its hyper-realistic depictions of tortured girl in the 1970s shocks to the paintings and photographs from today, fascinated and touched it a global audience. The filmmaker Claudia Schmid, Gottfried Helnwein has followed for two years and observed him in various creative processes in his castle in Ireland and in his studio in Los Angeles. Title: The artist Gottfried Helnwein Country of production: , Germany Production year: 2009 Length: 116 (min) Distribution : MFA + Film Distribution